Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food.

We reminisce:

• B&W television (Marc still owns one)
• Local TV news and their anchors
• "500 Anytime Minutes"
• Mike's HS nickname
• Back when life was finite and manageable
• "Mister Food" on local cable

We discuss:

• The Shamrock Shake
• Italian grandparents cooking on YouTube (Look up Chef Pasquale and Grandma Gina!)
• Mike's meatball birthday party
• Meatloaf vs meatballs
• Pasta Fazool - what is the best broth consistency?
• "Game worn" Josh Allen Buffalo wing sauce bibs
• Mike's Florida trip - what he ate and how he watched WROC-TV8 on the beach

We review:

• Gia's and Fairfield's - pillars of Italian greatness on the east side
• Featured Dish: Gia's Artichoke French
• Phillips Seafood in Newark, NJ Airport
• Centric Hots in Kodak Park (diced peppers and onions! what a genius idea)
• Coco Garden Malaysian Restaurant in Henrietta

Mike brings the articles:

• Canada's Open Home Program: Food brings people together
• What one guy did when he received his Doordash of Steak Tartar
• "Per Tutti" Italian kids school in LI
• Top 2 cheapest NY cities by median home sale prices - but what about property taxes?
• Is Syracuse or Rochester larger, in terms of zip codes?
• NYS is reaching out and taxing people who've already escaped, and people who remotely work for NY companies, and what you have to do avoid their reach.
• How many people escape NY per minute
• A new industry in Rochester: Stealing from the elderly

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year.

We Remember

• Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY
• QDOBA Webster
• #Snap Burger in Greece
• ER Sweetland
• ER's cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El Greco
• Big Lots all across Rochester - where else can you go to buy a couch, cereal, mouthwash, and foot lotion?
• Boxcar Donuts - Roch Public Market
• Gates cursed building: Fatso's XL, Tony Rigatoni, Yianni's, Cucina 21, Dinemore, currently Fazools
• OTB on West Ridge - and what it became
• Crystal Barn - a classic for high-end 80s events - and what it became
• Quaker Steak & Lube Gates NY - the glorious meal and the tragic timing
• Donuts Delite (just the one on the west side)
• Pizza Oven Niagara Falls
• Long Pond Meats in Greece - and what it became
• Valley Cadillac, and most other car dealerships - and who took them over

We Celebrate

• Pane Vino on Monroe
• Basin Pub
• Tonight's Featured Plate: Empire Hots Trash Plate
• Arby's Secret Meat Mountain
• Sheet Pizzas

We Believe

• Confessions from the McQuaid and LeMoyne Chapels
• Mike makes French Toast... in bacon grease.
• Philly Steak sandwiches with bacon?
• Do plate establishments advertise, or is it more like, IYKYK?
• Best ways to cook Brussels sprouts
• What does Don Alhart eat for Christmas?
• What are most of the pictures on Mike's phone?

(bonus points if you get the three category names)

So from all of us here at Flyover Plates: Happy Holidays, Prosperous New Year, and fill your soul with food.

TONIGHT ON FOP!

• Thanksgiving - where we went, what we ate.
• What's the most annoying Christmas gift?
• What passes for salad in Rochester
• Are Mac & Cheese and Green Bean Casserole appropriate for Thanksgiving?
• Mike eats stuffing... by itself?
• Italian barbers having cookie trays at Christmastime
• What exercise Mike logged in his FitBit this week
• Mexican and Irish Traffic Lights
• Kegs & Eggs
• WNY Raccoon moms
• Meet the HENRYS
• A nationwide network of junkyards
• Rochester's famous Tom the "Conehead"
• Willy Wonka
• An Olde Timey Newspaper's opinion of Rochester in 1812
• For the first times in their lives, Mike and Marc were both at a loss for words tonight.
• State Senator Jeremy Cooney's flier welcoming you to Rochester
• Another Christmas poem from Dr. Mike!

Reviews:

• Abington Ale House, MA
• Merc's and Wakeup Cafe in New Smyrna FL
• Sweet Tomatoes SOUP BUFFET
• The wait is over. Marc finally ate a Rubino's Italian Dinner Plate and reviews it for all both of you listeners.
• Apple Country Spirits aka Rootstock in Williamson, NY

From ALL of us at Flyover Plates, Happy Holidays and eat well!